Since its establishment in 1964, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), with its two departments, has devoted itself to investigating the history of law in Europe and beyond. Its research, its specialised library with more than 470,000 printed items and its numerous cooperations has made it one of the central research hubs for the worldwide scientific community concerned with investigating our past and present national and transnational legal orders.

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

Since its establishment in 1964, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), with its two departments, has devoted itself to investigating the history of law in Europe and beyond. Its research, its specialised library with more than 470,000 printed items and its numerous cooperations has made it one of the central research hubs for the worldwide scientific community concerned with investigating our past and present national and transnational legal orders.

The library is closed for external users until further notice.

Due to the closing of the library for external users, the institute building will be closed daily at 4 pm, from 16.03.2020 on.

European and Comparative Legal History
(Department I)

Stefan Vogenauer

Historical Regimes of Normativity 
(Department II)

Thomas Duve

Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent

Research Group

Translations and Transitions

Research Group

News

The School of Salamanca. A Case of Global Knowledge Production

July 01, 2020

Vittorio Klostermann receives the State of Hesse Publisher Prize

June 18, 2020

Mariana Dias Paes receives the Otto Hahn Medal

June 17, 2020

Pandemics from a legal perspective

May 28, 2020

Vom Vertrag zum Status

May 14, 2020

Heinz Mohnhaupt receives honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich

May 05, 2020

Events

Crossing boundaries. Legal History between Methodological Approaches and new Challenges and Identities

Sep 8, 2020 14:00 - 16:00
Online. For further information please contact ruether@rg.mpg.de

Conference: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History

Mar 4, 2021 - Mar 5, 2021
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Workshop: Colonial Legal Biography

Apr 19, 2021 - Apr 20, 2021
MPIeR

Conference: 4th Annual Conference: Law and Policy in European Integration (1960s-1990s)

Jun 1, 2021 09:30 - Jun 2, 2021 16:00
MPIeR, Room: Z01
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